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Lamb, Gregor

Basic Stats

Total words by this author in corpus - 431
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 181
Ratio of total words to unique words - 2.381
Tagged as ORK (Orkney) dialect.
Top ten most common words - the, and, i, me, car, in, we, a, he, wis,

List of texts in corpus

Lamb’s Tales
The Orkney Dictionary (2005) in Orkney dialect (ORK), categorised as prose (431 words)

Author word Keyness frequencies

This should list the words that the author uses in a disproportionate manner more often than other writers in the corpus. This may include (a) proper nouns (character names in the author's stories), (b) other words related to the specific subject matter and (c) words specific to the regional dialect.
WordCount Normalised
per million		 Keyness
car12 27,842.23101.602
peedie6 13,921.1157.449
fright3 6,960.5636.190
and17 39,443.1632.624
i16 37,122.9732.207
me12 27,842.2330.420
saet3 6,960.5630.210
drivan2 4,640.3725.633
thit5 11,600.9324.989
shouted3 6,960.5624.364
faither5 11,600.9324.229
very4 9,280.7422.634
hid7 16,241.3021.944
said7 16,241.3021.872
mither5 11,600.9321.461
got6 13,921.1121.451
wir5 11,600.9320.692
so6 13,921.1119.863
faan2 4,640.3719.131
drove2 4,640.3717.426
we9 20,881.6715.500
home2 4,640.3714.586
didna4 9,280.7414.188
back6 13,921.1112.797
off2 4,640.3710.738
shut2 4,640.3710.615
couldna2 4,640.3710.409
brither2 4,640.3710.297
when4 9,280.7410.108
long2 4,640.379.952
aal2 4,640.379.877
sit2 4,640.379.660
yir2 4,640.379.136
roond2 4,640.378.223
bit5 11,600.937.337
git2 4,640.377.046
she7 16,241.306.539
road2 4,640.376.141
whit4 9,280.745.497
up5 11,600.934.414
did2 4,640.373.781
he8 18,561.483.687
been3 6,960.563.580
hoose2 4,640.373.526
doon3 6,960.562.892
ll2 4,640.372.624
were2 4,640.372.580
wis8 18,561.482.449
aboot3 6,960.561.684
mervyn2 4,640.37nan
in10 23,201.861.424
tae6 13,921.111.308
a9 20,881.671.189
o6 13,921.111.058
his4 9,280.740.823
oot3 6,960.560.650
no2 4,640.370.537
him2 4,640.370.526
that3 6,960.560.415
on2 4,640.370.172
the27 62,645.010.150
for2 4,640.370.077
this2 4,640.370.072
is3 6,960.560.043
s3 6,960.560.021